À la nuit. ‘ At nightfall

4. — Le long de l’Amstel= ‘Along the Amstel.’ So : Alkr le long de la rivière ; tout le long de Veau. The forms du long de and au long de are used with the same force as le long de.

4. — Logis = ‘home.’ It is nearly équivalent at times to habitation or maison ; as, c’est un grand logis ; il garde le logis ; nous demeurons au logis. At times, however, it means simply “lodgings.” Le Lion-d’or est un bon logis: bon logis à piâ et à cheval (i.e.^ for man and beast).

6. — Tout à coup. Coup enters into (1) noun phrases : coup de fusil, gunshot ; coup de fouet, lash ; coup d’œil (2, 20), glance ; coup de pied, kick, etc. ; (2) into adverbial phrases : tout à coup, suddenly ; tout d’un coup, at a stroke, suddenly ; coup sur coup (1, 17), crash after crash ; à coup sûr, assuredly.

9, — D’espions. These ‘ spies ’ are described by De Amicis, in his Holland and its People. “ Outside, on the stone sill, is a row of small flower-pots. From the stone sill,

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or froin one side, projects an iron stem curving npwards, which sustains too small mirrors [called ‘ spies ’] joined in the form of a book, moveable, and surmounted by another, also moveable, so that those iiiside the house can see, withoiit being seen, everything that passes in the Street.”